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HP NonStop Server (Himalaya) Business Continuity Customer Experiences. Moderated by Harry Scott, Carr Scott Software Presenting: Barclays Bank – Phil Nye Principal Consultant Brown & Co. – Robert Cline Vice President, a division of JP Morgan Chase & Co.
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HP NonStop Server (Himalaya) Business Continuity Customer Experiences Moderated by Harry Scott, Carr Scott Software Presenting: Barclays Bank – Phil NyePrincipal Consultant Brown & Co. – Robert ClineVice President, a division of JP Morgan Chase & Co. BBS Norway – John GreenPrincipal Consultant Session – ES-02-U
Presentations and Challenges • Barclaycard UK -- Phil Nye • Barclaycard's business continuity environment with emphasis on their use of TMF with ACI's Base24 • Brown & Co. USA -- Robert Cline • Brown & Co's disaster recovery model with emphasis on Indestructible Scalable Computing and ZLE • BBS Norway -- John Green • BBS Norway's computing environment with emphasis on complete environment replication
Barclaycard – BASE24 • Barclaycard – A large BASE24 Installation • Nearly 7 million transactions peak day. • Over 230 Transactions per Second • Around 280,000 POS Terminals • Switch to Contingency in single-digit minutes • Barclaycard – A long History of using BASE24 and TMF/RDF • Late 1980’s: Added TMF support to BASE24 POS3.0 • Throughout 1990’s: BASE24/XP – written for TMF • 2000-2001: Standard BASE24 POS5.3 / AutoTMF
The Problem ? How to provide a contingency solution for BASE24 POS 5.3 and ATM 6.0 ? What did we do ? Used 2 * S72014 systems and stress-tested BASE24 POS 5.3 (Beta Release) with: • Golden Gate’s Extractor / Replicator • Compaq's NonStop AutoTMF
So what did we conclude ? • AutoTMF does add TMF support to our high-volume BASE24 configuration. We were able to stress-test a single BASE24-POS 5.3 Logical Network to 250 tps. • We saw significant improvements in disc I/O: • PTLF: Entry-sequenced: DP2 writes up to 56K (=40 TPS) • Able to keep e.g. PTLF/ILF Alternate Keys in Cache • Minimises the impact of Block Splits to e.g. SAF files • POS Settlement cutover is some 50% faster • You can also add TMF support to your Batch programs
Production Experiences: • Started to migrate from BASE24/XP to BASE24-POS and AutoTMF in mid-2001. Fully live by 4th Qtr 2001. • NO problems experienced in production with AutoTMF. • Because of the way AutoTMF determines transaction boundaries, we run with more TMF transactions than Business Transactions. • Forced us to implement RDF IMP/x v 1.2 (to eliminate RDF Receiver Transaction Status Table problems). NO problems experienced with this version of RDF – and we ship Format 2 PTLF files. • At peak we were running with some 650 TMF txns/sec and generating some 1.4Gbytes /sec to the TMF Auditrail discs (1 MAT and 2 Auxiliary Trails).
BASE24 and AutoTMF specifics: • We don’t AUDIT the following files: • NEGs (can’t FUP RENAME an audited file). • IDF (problem with the way BASE24 handles fileinfo call – AutoTMF can now hide all details of an Audited file from an application) We use AutoTMF to AUDIT the following files: • P/TLFs and Alt.Keys • ILFs and Alt Keys. • PTDF/PRDF • SAFs • Database (CPF, etc.) • A VERY simple AutoTMF configuration. ALL GLOBAL parameter settings and WEAK AutoTMF Isolation mode. • We run multiple BASE24 Logical Networks • We don’t RDF-protect all of these (our choice) • We don’t RDF certain files (e.g. ILFs) – reduces Expand requirements • Those files not RDF’ed are configured to use Auxiliary AuditTrails
Presentations and Challenges • Barclaycard UK -- Phil Nye • Barclaycard's business continuity environment with emphasis on their use of TMF with ACI's Base24 • Brown & Co. USA -- Robert Cline • Brown & Co's disaster recovery model with emphasis on Indestructible Scalable Computing and ZLE • BBS Norway -- John Green • BBS Norway's computing environment with emphasis on complete environment replication
Brown & Co. • Front and back office Brokerage system • SIS system (ADP/SIS) • Computer environment, application and procedures upgrade • Latest and greatest Himalaya technology • Business continuity and business intelligence initiative • Sub 10 minute business continuity • Leverage business continuity investment for business intelligence • Adding TMF and SQL to an Enscribe, non-TMF, legacy 3rd party application package (ahead of the vendor)
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Brown & Co.'s Uses RDF for... • Less than 7 minute full fail-over with 100% data integrity to ensure Business Continuity • Foundation for 'no downtime, no excuses' as part of ISC and CPA initiatives • Duplicate database used for data mining as part of ZLE implementation • Duplicate database is source for 'off-host' replication
Presentations and Challenges • Barclaycard UK -- Phil Nye • Barclaycard's business continuity environment with emphasis on their use of TMF with ACI's Base24 • Brown & Co. USA -- Robert Cline • Brown & Co's disaster recovery model with emphasis on Indestructible Scalable Computing and ZLE • BBS Norway -- John Green • BBS Norway's computing environment with emphasis on complete environment replication
Bankenes Betalings Sentral (BBS) • eGiro system • Messageway (BCE Emergis) • MCI (Messageway Clearing Interface) & “waiting register” database • S74008 & S74004 • Kabal project • AutoTMF, AutoSync, RDF & TACL • First joint user of AutoTMF and AutoSync in Europe • First to implement DR for Messageway with RDF
What was replicated • Database Replication • Messageway – Audited and previously non-audited files • MCI & Waiting Register - All audited • Exception is one sequence number allocation file • All transient, intermediate files • Application Infrastructure files
How did we replicate the application ? • NonStop AutoTMF / RDF • AutoTMF Enabled BBS to protect non-audited elements of the Messageway database • TAL, COBOL85, NMCOBOL, NMC, pTAL and NMCPLUS code • BCE Emergis supplied utility handles system name changes
How did we replicate the application ? • NonStop AutoSYNC • Source, Object, TACL macro files • TACL macros handle CPU number and system name changes • Transient files, written with Bulk I/O • Did not use AutoTMF for performance reasons • AutoSync was a key success factor for the project • Saves money in the longer term: No manual procedures necessary and likelihood of errors eliminated • TACL macros handle CPU and system name changes
Automated Replication Procedures • Handling “Parked Data” • Data repository of unstructured files • Index for each record with pointer to file & RBA • Data repository written by single process using Bulk I/O • Read by multiple readers as permanent extended data segment • Could non be audited, so AutoSync used to transfer input files to backup system • Input files re-processed on independent Parked Data subsystem • Communicating TACL macros running on primary and backup systems handle housekeeping functions
AutoSync Usage • Closely monitor performance • Consider multiple batch ID’s • Data compression should generally be disabled • Does not replicate purges of empty filesets (may need dummy files)
Summary • Barclaycard UK - Phil Nye • TMF (and AutoTMF) make applications run faster and provide greatly increased data integrity (including recovery from human failure) • Brown & Co. USA - Robert Cline • RDF provides the fastest, most reliable database replication for disaster recovery, available and is the foundation for ISC / CPA • BBS Norway - John Green • Replicating your database isn't enough, AutoSYNC provides complete application protection from disasters, ensuring that the application environment is in place, in addition to what RDF provides for your databases • Copies of this presentation can be found at:www.CarrScott.com
Want More Information? • Compaq Disaster Recovery/RDF stand (Exhibition Hall) • Product Information (TMF, AutoTMF, RDF and AutoSYNC) • http://nonstop.compaq.com/view.asp?PAGE=RDF_SW • Presenter Contact Information • Harry Scott, Carr Scott Software +1 781.934.0989harry.scott@carrscott.com • Phil Nye, Cardlink Consultants +44 (1565) 614106phil@cardlink.co.uk • Robert Cline, Brown & Co. +1 (617) 878-2708rcline@brownco.com • John Green, BBS AS +47 2289 8070john.green@bbs.no